Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 24, 1881, Page 1

et: LekES cree eesSaie 4 \e res: Bare pt —ToLUME XL. TUESDAY, MAY 24, TRIMMINGS, LIGHT-NING CLOTHIERS “Leaders of | WILLOUGHBY, Popular Prices!" HE & 6 Gul: Been bt Trimming Dept] Othe th Caley SolicitYour Custom. {) leer Lok Oui the Store-—-25 Within, DAYLIGHT ECLIPSED. Grand Eleciric Reception EVERY EVENING AT EIGHT. FuuMEn CLOTHING. _ se pAN'T STAND yoT WEATHER CENT State and Madison-sts. “IMPORTANT CHANGES” “OUR PRICES,” TO WHICH WE ASK “Particular Attention!” SAMPLES HAILED. “leaders of Popular Prices!” STATE AND MADISON-STS, Branch, Madison and Desplainas-sts, LAKE NAVIGATION. NEW ROUTE Escanaba, Green Bay, &¢, GOODRICH TRANSPORTATION C0. Side-Wheel Sicamer Muskegon “QWE FOLKS CANT } Ahal wo appreciate your feel- ings, In fact we’ve known people who enjoyed 30° below zero much better than 90° above. Be con- soled ucighbor. Alpaca Coats, White Vests, Summer Suits, Are waiting your commands, and have been madyforyou some months, In fact, long before the crisis comes we are prepared— thinking and preparing six months, YES, EVEN A YEAR AHEAD. A NUTTING & CO. Bogsest your examination of these Season- able Goods at your carliest convenience. THEIR NUMBERS are * chet 104 & 106 MADISON-ST Ivans busy as a Bee-Hive here now, all because good reliable Clothing is Retailed atReasonable Low Prices, and the people have found it out. LI NUTTING & C0, Tour Clothiers and Your Tailors. Invite your wives, mothers, sisters, and sweethearts to come down town to-night and see the greatest display of light ever known, and prop- erly located in Chicago. No one will ever attempt to equal the “Magnetism” of Amer- ica’s greatest workers for trade, WILLOUGHBY, HILL & CO., Whose clothes are now. charged with electricity (without any extra charge), rendering them contagion- proof and full of health. No one was ever known to die with our harness on, (‘“See,” we sell our goods for cash.) Of course tisn’t our harness after you pay for it. Ladies, buy no more love “philters.” Bring the pro- posed victim into our store and we will “electrify” him. He will then “obey.” The powerof “magnetism” is mar- velous, but unless properly administered will fail of its object. Tell us what you want of the proposed victim and Will leave Chicago for Escanaba, Fnyctte, and all Lake Superior ‘Yowns, vis Ercanaba, and ‘all Weat Shore orta, evory Batirduy morning atv u'eluck, nt riving at Escanaba early Munday morning, and go thenve to Monuminee, Geonto, and Green May, arrive m4 ing at Greun ay Mon 8; i if May Tuesday morning, eturning, leave ¢ nuiner, Kacanaba, Fayotte, touching at ‘Oconto, BM Ac. leaving Escundba on the arrival of train from Anke Kuporlor on Tucailay afternoon, and srtive in Chicago ‘Thursday afternoon, DOCKS FOOT MICHIGAN-AV. GOODRICH'S STEAMERS, HUNYADI JANOS. we will fix it O. K. TW ssavara Sc, THE BEST iene Why not patronize WIL- Hunpadi cufttsr | TEM TABLE, |-OUSHBY: HILL & co. instead of these dark Eastern Branch Stores run by man- agers? the owners seeing Chicago once a year, merely to take their gains and leave, spending what you have giv- en them on the shores of the Atlantic Sea, doing'no « CHI- CAGOAN” any good. WILLOUGHBY, HILL & CO. spend all'the money they can get hold of right here among you. - Buy your Clothes, Hats, Shoes, of the most enterprising Clothing Merchants known to the- modern world. Provided, of course, that the goods are right, “AND THEY SHALL BE”; that the prices are the lowest, “AND THEY SHALL BE.” «“Magnetized’’ Clothes only sold by WILLOUGH- BY, HILL & CO.,--Electric Suits that will make an old man frisky, and wake up a good many young men. You must buy them and put them on while the great “Electric NATURAL APERIENT Viren SAMOS "A natural laxative, superior to all others.” Prof. Macnamara, M.D. of Dublin. “ SPEEDY, SURE, & GENTLE.” Pref. Roberts, F.R.C.P. London. "Relieves the kidneys, unloads the liver, and opens the bowels,” London Medical Record. Orlinary Dose, a Wineglassful before breakfast. Gall Drugyists and Mineral Water Dealers. For Racine, Milwaukeo, Sheboygan, Banitowoc, * Hngtot, whd Muniateo, overy Tuealay, Wednes: quureday, Friday, and Suiurduy morning avy aan 1 cr 0 . u'clock, For Hncapaba, Fayette, and Lake Superior Towns, vin Escanaba, Ocunto, Menuilnoe, Green ayy, ‘and all Wowt Shore ports, daturday murnings aty o'clock. Baturday ‘and Munduy oveniuge at 8 For Green Bay and all bay ports, Tuusday at 7 p.m, Docks Foot Michigan-av. PIANOS STORY & CARIP, 188 & 190 State-st., Aro offering rare barznina in Deckor Bron, Halnes Bros. Mathushek, and Story & Camp Pianos And In Eatey and Story & Camp Organs, for cuah or on tine, Every inairumont thors oughly warrantd for dive years, and all datucts made guud, STORY & CARIP, 188 & 190 State REA Le, BABY CARRIACES. Excelsior Sleaping Coach, Peerless Carriage, MANUFACTURERS OF BICYCLES, Holton &Hildreth 21 223 STATE ST. t. = aeets Se “DESIGNER AND BUILDER Mecial Machinery, JNO. J. CLAUSE, to 12 Bout 0 Cullats Mwales, Leaders, AY SPALDING'S, 108 Madison-st. Whistles, Bulls, &e, SESE Crore Genoa Spurting Goods Sea ee With and withont Rubber Tire. Machine” is running,--gay Wholesule and Betull. : to-night at 8:30. satan the CE AON CAALES: “Did' you say you would come in? ’ Public Sale of Ciy Real Estta es tot ——— ¢ dison and Clark-sts, Bate sioa a, BUILOIN orner Madison and Clark- Svecvsat OUTS nu ig Pit Mubte on relentisg ‘Tha N, W. corner of Madison and Unlon-ste.. known . FINA ier edaeatied Guid HRETLEREE | | ANSO, 416, 418, 420, 422, 424 ON Wma wa TAT rota fae ‘Mayer und Supurintendent uf Policy way Milwaukee-av. : fered for sale at Publio Auction on Batur- s “av. win UE TO LOAN | Subic wus uskeatea: | Also, cor Blue Island-av Seater tang treet aed hocomnitveiuns. Propose | Moubed, wrmsleoe Lo Ute Uae unch yucdaoen | aNd ‘Twelfth-st. on id wid upwards un fats tary ‘Lerme of possesalu: Arran ded Bo us to lun to be edauply with the uycesslctes of ty Polley Uepartuient. furchue intormauen cau be hed by apply’ undersigned, akobuik e Eesha Y. Comptroller Prod BItats4 aud? dat slaty to ta cliy" ere invited ry June ny: wits Bang Urty, Ca WHEELIE, at Unica OPEN TILL NINE EVERY NIGHT. able-bodied population. UIT Persona unable ta purchase copter of Tun Crile, Citcado Trinuny at Newe Agencies ant an rade atuy (reins where Chicags papers are solid toll cons fera favor hy reporting tre facts tu Usts office, ylo- ing full part(culura, {87 The portage on translent newepapera tet cent for lio ounces, whtch muat be prepatd tn all cases, or they will not rateh thelr destination, Une der the postal taw tie postage on a Tiunn of elght, ten,ur twelve payes (a 2 cents, sietezn or twenty pager 3 cente, twenty-four payer 4 cents, Partica that matt an oceasional copy to their {riers vwlit please hear thiain mind ¢f they don’t wish the papers consigned to Use waste-basket by the Post-Upice offietais. *™, ) Wansen and partly cloudy weather for this regton to-lay. a Mus. Ganrincp was not much better yes- terday, Her phystelana,. while confident of her complete restoratioh to health In time, say that it will be somoldays yet before nny decited Improvement iifsher condition will be noticeable, is Pro. Moses Corr University, has been joffered and nas ace eepted the chairof History tn Cornell Unt- versity, a8 tho suceessof to Prof. Willlaim C. Russejl. Theselection of Prof, ‘Tyler xreatly strengthens the faculty‘of Cornell, —————— Arpiication lind been made fast evening. by the holders of $239,000,000 worth of the S percent bonds for thelr renewal at 3}¢ per cent, in accordance with the regulations made by the Sceretary.of the ‘I'reasury. Only $11,000,000 worth now remain to bo renewed in order to reach the Rinit, $250,000,800, Contnon.en Gurney, Commissioner-of- Public-Works Wallor,. Chicf-of-Police Me- Garigle, Flre-Marshal Swenie, and Health- Commissioner De Wolf were renominated by Mayor Harrison Inst evening, in a conmunt- cation to the Council. and the nominations were unanimously confirmed. ————ee Notwiristanpina a week of somawhat favorable weather, the dfark Lane Express says “the English graln-crops do not stand well for the harvesf’? Vegetation of all Kinds Is inn somewhat backward state all over Great Britain, and acoptous rainfall fs needed. “Without It,” says the Express, “the outlook is uncertain and unfavorable.” Iris to be hoped we haye heard the last of Mr. Suter. Ile was ceptured near Salonica nix weeks ago by. Turkish brigands, who ro- fused to deliver him without a ransom, Goschen, the English Minister at Constant!- nople, paid the ransom last Saturday, and Suter has been liberated. Thecable man will probably give us a yest. now on tho Suter business, Tur Mexican House of Representatives has approved an amehdment to the Conatitu- tton which provides that none but Mexicans shall bo eligibte for members of that body. Tho purpose of the amendment Is to exclude certain Spaninrds who have rendered thetn- solves very obnoxtouh tho people of Mex- Ico, It may be that skis nlmed at Americans also. sag in es ‘Tr: New Pallas (Iroland) farmers seem to have triumphed, ‘The tnilitary cordon which was drawn round the castle In which they had fortified thamselyes has been broken up, the ejectments have been abandoned, and the peasants have returned from thelr fortress victorlous, So much for courage and deter- mination, Tne Presidents of the various mercantile associations of Boston have called a mecting for to-morrow evenlng to consider the pusst- bility and desirability of inaugurating a World’s Falr in that city In 1885. Tha Bos- ton people, If they undertake the matter, will make lt go. Next t6 Chiengo, Boston Is perhaps the most enterprising city in the world. Prince Gorrtscitanor has arrived at Ber- lin from Baden on his way to St. Petersburg to return thanks to Alexander IIL for his congratulations on a recent oceasion, Gorts- chakoff annonces his Intention to return to Baden soon again, but the Czar may be ablo to induce lim to forego this Intention, ‘The veteran statesman may yet be able to do some service for Ru ———_— ProccaMATions bearing the heading “Land and Liberty,” and calling on the people to drive out tho Jews, are posted ox- tonstvely throughout Southern Russia, What connection the persecution of an peo- ple has with liberty Is not apparent, and as the Jews are not an agriculsural people it Is hard to understand how they are connected in the Cossack nind with land, Tue Common Counell at fs~ meoting last night, after much wrangling and talk, agreed | by # vote of 20 to 100n the Comnittees, ag re- ported by special committes appointed for that purpose two weeks ago: The Chairmen otthe principal Committees are: Finance, Burley; Judiciary, Young; Schools, Stauber; Rallroads, Bond; Fire and Water, Everett; Gas, Sanders; Public Bulldings, Hildreth; Police, Riordan. Tue antiJowlsh riots of Russia are not over yet. Demonstrations of the usual character occurred In various places yester- day, Sir Charles Dilke stated in the Mouse of Commons last night that he was tnveatl- gating the clroumstances which led to the expulsion of a British Jew from St, Peters- burg with a view to asking for a modifica, tlon of the laws regulating the residence of the Jows In Russia, en Now Trav we have xotten over tho strik- Ing suason at this sidoof the linc, our Domin- fon neighbors are having !t all to themselves. ‘Tho firemen on the Grand Trunk Railroad have struck for an increase of one-quarter of acent perinile on light engines, and for one hal€ofacent per wile on heavy draft en- gines, The shoemakers of Toronto have obtained an advance of 10 per cont In their Wages on threatening to atrlke. ° Tue Governmont of Sweden is becoming alarmed at the largo cmigr@tion from that country to the United States, and 1a reported to be contemplating the enagtmentof Jaws ty cheek the exodus, ‘Thosoy io ayo leave al td steer {3 their numbery that whole counties are belng Qlga 1 thpyg morethan restrictive Ips to. Ghee such an emigratl 7 ig, healthy young v oh omen ae It esa sdhto- Bi — /Tawgre {3 an insurrection in South Amer tea; which Is not passing sttange, Venezuela fs tho theatre of ‘the rising, At Ltunos, in that country, a body of rebels have taken the field, ‘Thelr war ery ls, “Down with Guz- miuu Blanco” (Guaman Bianco bs the Presi- 1881—TWILVEE PAGES. dent of the Venezucian Republic), and ho wi} probably go down, but whoever goes up will not enjoy the uncertain privilege of being up very long. A South American con- atituency Is an uncertain one, Revenur Orricens Gany_ and Looper, of South Carolina, are Just the kind of men for revenue ofilcers In stich aState, Thoy set forth to selzean Ullelt distiliery in Plekens County recently, and they succeeded In doing ft, notwithstanding that the persons’ who vperated It, named Alexander, father and son, resisted with shotguns. Young Alexander wus seriously, perhaps fatally, wounded. The oMeers then destroyed an elghty-stx-gallun still and about 1,700 gallons of mash and beer, ——e Mu. J. E. Pocity, of New Orleans, felt ag- arieved at sume observations made by Mr. A. B Roman in his paper, the Lonutstanatse, about Poche's brother, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, Pocha challenged Roman, and a duel was fought nbout it. Pistols were the weapons, Three shots were exchanged, with the effect that Mr. Roman’s pantaloons were somewhat dis- figured by a shot from Mr. Poche’s weapon! Mr. Poche then expressed himself ns satls- fled, Just like a Louisiana duel. Count lipsny von Annis, the Prusstan diplomat whose death was announced Inst weet, Is sald to have left papers which will yindicate hts memory, and clearly prove that the charge of treason, on which he was con- victed and sentenced to five years’ penal servitude by a Court unter the Influence of Ils deadly and unrelenting enemy, Bismarck, was baseless and calumnious, A pretty gen- eral Impression has prevailed ever since the trial of Count yon Arnim that le was sacri- ficed to uppease the wrath and to satisfy the vengeance of tho most Intolerant of Euro- pean statesmen, . Tim Franco-Tunisian treaty was submit- ted to the French Chamber of Deputies yes- terday. “ Clemenceau (ultra-Radical) de nounced tho treaty In the bitterest terms. saylng that its ratification would have the cf- feet of creating distrust, and would alienate the sympathics of nations hitherto friendly to France, Proust (Republican) ‘defended the treaty. A Bonapartist Deputy moved the adjournment of the debate In order to give the Government an opportunity to amend, but tho motion was defeated, 963 to 111,—a decisive victory for the Government. After sume words from Preimler Ferry, the treaty was then ratified by a vote of 435 to 10, Mn. A. N. Wannamaciter Is prenching a temperance crusade nut Reading, Pa, and with such effect that great excitement pre- valis in that hitherto quiet town. At ameet- {ug in the hall of the Young Men’s Christian Association Sunday evening, which was largely attended by clergymen, a local preacher named Lauer was violently de- nounced. The Itev. Mr. Spear had the te- merity to stand up and defend Mr. Lauer, whereupon he was set upon nnd ex- pelled from’ the hall. Seeing that he would not be heard from the platform, the Rev. Mr. Spear hns addressed hiinself to the people, through the columns of the local press, and -promises to organize 8 counter-movem ent. There are lively thes 4 Tiromas BRENNAN, of the Irish National Land League, and one of the inost prominent members of that or- ganization, was arrested In Dublin yester- day under the Coercion act, and placed in jail at Naas, Kildare. Brennan is one of tho traversers who were tried in Dublin last January. To was arrested in December, 1879, for seditious utterances, but was never tried on that charge. ‘The Coercion act is a much more effective Instru- ment than state trial, At least Mr. Forster has found it so. There are now only threo members of the Executive Committee of the Land League out of jail. These are Messrs. Kettle, Sexton, and Har- tington, and it fs not unlikely that they will be soon accommodated with cells in some onoof the Irish jalls, Some of the latter, by the way, are already full, ——_ Secretary Winpost finds time between the applications of ofieesuekers and the de- vising of very successful financial schentesto look into the way matters are conducted in IMs Department, ‘The other day he discov- ered that two officials were in the habit of doing things in an irregular and Wlegal man- nor, and both were promptly dismissed, Sul more recently ho has discovered that matters ‘wera not managed ns thoy ought to be fn the custodian’s division of the Department. The chief of this, one Pitney, in- stend of buying supplies by contract, bought them froin his favorita at cnormous prices, and the Lmpresston prevatls that he recelved a percentage of the overcharge. The work- men employed by him worked at the private resilences of Government officials and were patd. therefor out of the United States ‘Treasury. Assistant Secretary Upton is charged with having a knowledge of these ‘tho Uifferent* Bureau officers, Soun there irregularities for two years and with falllug to make them known, Bir, Pitnoy and several other persons are Ilkely to sever thelr connection with the ‘Treasury Department, President Gartield and hia Cabinet oficers are doterimined that the money of the people shall not bo waste- fully spent or misapplied, Tue Caucus Conmittes of the Ropubdlicans of the New York Assembly sont an invita- tion to the Republican Caucus Comuittes of the Now York Senate yesterday to meet them. ‘The latter body returnod answer that all tho Republican membors of the Senate wore not In Albany, Itis not at all cortain that tho ant!-Conkllng mombors will enter the caucus at all, knowing that the machine- men are ina majority, There are only olght Senators who are favorable to the renomina- tlon of Conkling, and itis not certaln that they will sustain hhu throughout anyth ing Nke a prolonged struggle, Gov, Cornell is credited with Senatorial asplrations, and to that fact {s attributed the articlu In the Albauy Ex press advising Conkling to withdraw from, the contest, thera belng no chanco of hit election. The Express. has, however, been whipped. into Ine, and: comes out to-day jn an article” strongly supporting Conkling, ‘There ure Indications of an alliance between the Conkilngtves and same pf the Democratic legislators, but the Demogratic leaders wilt probably prevent thig,"In..the. hope that the whole matte® “will be - referred back to the people, > State Senator Wax- ner properly exp! + the feullogs of the Republicans of State- when ho says that ninuty-t of every hundred of them are opposed to tho reflection of Conkling; Ilkewlse State Senator Pitts, when he guys that any member of the Legislature from Western New York who votes for Conkling digs lis political grave. “en friends, and came very near getting the scheme through? fs TREASURY OFFICIAIL . ‘ who ought to know a goud dent about these. WASHINGTON. Exposure of a System of “Ca: hoots” in Vogue at the Treasury. customary annual investigation: that 1b wast and that there has been nothing yet discoy- been corruptly used, Sume-of the essential facts asserted to be true In the pub. Ushed reports are deniod,—as, for iné The Subordinates “Buy” Their Household Goods from rum. A local denier did send n cask of that Uncle Sam. article, hoping ‘that it might be purchased, but itnever has been, ordered or patd for... The dealer hag-slmply not taken it away, much as Congress in both branches sets the They Purchase Bay Rum by the Barrel, and Indulge in Oth- er Luxuries, ‘ example of inalntalning 0 barber-shop and n bath-room, with all accompaniments, at publile expense, the Executive Departments have nt least a prominent example for the application of a portion of the Contingent Fund to such purposes, ¢ THE INVESTIGATION, The Cabinetmaker Does Little Odd * Jobs at Sherman's ‘and at ; tigation of the necounts and conduct of 0. Evaris’. L. Vitney, Custodian of the Treasury De- partment, ordered by Seeretary Windom, Is developing ugly facts and fuvalving persons , who have held high places. Pitney’s bust- nesa fy to buy everything needed in the Treasury, including furniture, carpets, soap, ete, It Is ascertained that he has for six years violated the Jaw requiring thent to bo purchased by contract from the lowest bid- ders. Ilo has bought from friends and fa- vorits without making any contracts, paying them whatever they charged. : No system of bovks or vouchers has been kept; every- thing has been run loosely and without any sort of business rules, Qutrageously exorbl- A Custodian Named Pitney the Scapegoaut—’ Tis True, ’ Tis Pitney, Etc. Opening of Mahone’s Campaign An Old Bridge~Raum’s Enemies. Treasury Affairsa—Condition of Mrs, | .per cent higher than ruling’ market prices, and the difference between the market priecs Garfield—The Cabinet and those paid have been allowed to Pitney . Officers, by parties he purchased from, in the way of goods for his own use. One cabinetmaker, numed Frazier, who Is regularly employed MICE under Pitney, testifies that nearly all his time for several yenrs past has been con- sumed in doing work for outside parties {n- stead of working for the Government; that AT THE GOVERNMENT-MEAL SACKS, Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Wasurnatos, D. €,, May. #—The indica- tlons are that the summer dullness is to be relieved by petty seandals in the Depart- ments, The great star-route investigation Is to be supplemented by an examination of the expenditures of the contingent funds In the various executive offices. ‘This has already begun In the ‘T'reasury Departinent, and the results, if the sensationalists are to be be eved, are serious. A committee has been for some tine fnvestigating the manner of ex- pending thecontingent fund of the Treasury, which Is disbursed by tho Custotlan of that department, Mr. Pitney. The Eventug Star has the following upon the. subject: “It has been a notorious fact in the ‘Treasury De- partment that, for years, all has not been rightin the Custod{an’s office, The burden of tha. present avalanche falls upou the shoulders ot QO. L.. Pitney, the Custodian, ‘The smountof money that. annually ‘ls ex- pended by the Custudian fs $132,000, This Is for furniture, carpets, water-pitch- ers, sonp, and articles necessary for the com- fort, convenience, and work of the officers and emvloyés of the: Departments. When Pitney. became Custodian, about six years ago, the purchase of the necessary articles for-. thelr offices was in the hands of house of one of the high Government oMciats; that he frequently went from one” house to another of persons in the Govern- ment employ, SOME HOLDING IMPORTANT PLACES, doing whatever they wanted, and the money paid tor his services was charged round to the different Goyernunt Bureaus, Ie swears that he made fifteen fac-similes of the desk used by Jetferson when he wrote tho Declaration of Independence, and which was presented to the . Govern- ment ayenrorso ago; that each of theso imitation desks cost $69, the materials for which ‘were pald out of Government money, and charged ninong the materials needed for Government uses. ‘These iifteen desks were iven out as presents by authorities In the freusury to friends, Furniture belonging tuin residences, ‘The facts gu to show that a ciuls of the Treasury, sume of them holding responsible positions, existed, and got bene fits from the looge anud.reckless manngement arenas wateh, the Appolutment Clerk, be- sides Pitney and his bookkeeper, and the sturekeeper, aid Hosier, who ling charge of the cabinet-making departinent, and one assistant Seeretary have derived more of dying. Goverment business.” Iu: ao few instances contracts have been made, but not in the most iuportant and extensive purchases, Pitney has built him a new resi dence, ‘The result of the Investigation will robably bo: a number of ‘removals. . Ex- was a‘change, It all went to the office of the Custodinn. Shdrtly after it was noticed ‘that new “éontractors were dealt with. ‘Then came flimsy material, furnished atexorbitant prices, Several Bureau officers refused to certify to the accounts of these con tractors, except in some such form as this: ‘Correct as to'the word done.” ‘This would not ap- prove the prices, or the quality of the work or material, 3 THE DEPARTMENT CANINETMAKER, Suter, was replaced by Mr. Frank flessler. When tho desk of Thoinas Jeiferson, upon which he wrote the Declaration of Independ- ence, was presented to the President, fifteen coples of {t were manufactured in Hessler’s shop,’ ‘They were glven around, it ts said, as presents where It was thought they would do the most good. An employé of Hessler makes a number of allegations against hin. Ho has a dupllonte key to the hardware rootn,-he says, which he visits at nights and takes therefrom what he wants. Another of his employés makes affidavit ns to how a por- tlon of his thue was spent, He gives the dates when he should have been nony as having had the benetit of the cabl- netninker's work at thelr private residences, GENERAL ATTENTION. Developments of the Investigation of the Treasury Custudlan’s affalrs’ are attracting,’ general attention, After Secretary Window, took charge of the Trensury he was advised of the ring now being exposed, As soon as the Sceretary got time from the pressure of applicants for office and other bressiniy mutters, a committes was appolnted with fustructions to make the inquiry complete and sweeping, and spare nobody, Congress makes an ap- propriotion for the Custodian of the Treas- ury, or, rather, for the contingent expenses of the Treasury, In bulk, Lust winter an effort was made in the House Committee on Appropriations te change the plan, and make speeltie approprintions,—a certain sum for carpets, a fixed stun for furniture, and so on, —but this change was prevented by protests that such # mode of appropriation would erlpple that division of the Department, In- vestigation will, it is stated, make MORE IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS, at work for” the Government, but | phe ring has been In operation years, and, when he was employed on fine work upon’ } now that the exposure hus begun, the proiits Secretary Shennan’s new house. He also | can be traced to many persons, Two years ago Assistant-Seeretary Upton was in- formed of the wrongdoing and the mis- application of publle money by Custodian itney, but no steps toward correction were tuken. It ig asserted to-night that Upton will soon bo removed, and that the strong fight male to Keep him in position was for, the purpose of preventing the exposure which hina now come, ‘This investixation and that of the star-route service tre not the swears that he worked aot Secretary Evarts’ house, and upon the new house which Mr, Pitney has built for himself on TL, street. tile pay was charged around to tho different Bureaus, as if he had been at work for thom. Mr. Pitney was also agent for Secretary Shere man's houses In this elty, collested the rent. and attended to the wants of the tenants, Mr. Lamphere, ‘according to all ac- | only ones to be made, ‘Tho present Admin- counts, stands remarkably well With | istration intends to search through alt the Pitney, Lamphere nus publishoil a | Hottfnu pubtio business i Deing conducted, 0 : sort of =o jumble about tho | and whether any reckless, wasteful, oF Government and tho duties of Its oficers. ‘There 1s, of course, no Jaw agalnat this, but the law prohibits him from - USING HIS PUSITION TO BELT. THE Wont. It appears that he has done so, however, One ‘case Is specially noted about this, He instructéd the customs officers, whose ne- counts he approves, to make requisitions for his book, ‘This was done, The accounts wentthrough all right. The spectal case is that of the Collector of Custogis at Wilining- wn, N2C, That officer, who was very futi- mate with Lamphere, made, it is stated, such a large requlsltlun forslty books that ft digi not look well in the accounts, To get around this, Pltnoy was Induced to take Ina atock of the books and deal them out ns the requisitions came In. By this means they would not all appear in the same account anil St looked better, It has been found that Pitney has on hand 900 coples of the book, bought at the price of $3 per copy. The law requires that all furniture, etc. worn out, shall be sold at public auction by the Custo- diun, ‘The sales of old furniture at auction bring to the murket a gorry lot of stulf, which nobody wauts. ‘There are, ft Is alleged, LITTLE PRIVATE BALES, however, where, for the small sum of 35 cents or 80 cents, or other nominal sum, those favored have beon allowed to purchase handsome desks, carpets, and other arijcles any wrong exists it is to be exposed, and wehutuver Public nioney Is wasted it Is to be stopped, MAIIONE. . 18 CAMPAIGN, Spectat Dispateh to The Crteago Tribune, Wasutnotoy, D,C,, Muy 23,—Gen, Mahone will go to Richmond early next, week to be present at the anti-Bourborn or Readjuster State Convention, which will be held In that city on June 2, Soon afterward Gen; Mahone -will begin an. active canvass of thd State, and will speak {nas many of the cauntics ag practicable bufore the elvction, which will take placo In November. The, Bourbon State Convention will not be held until Apgust, afid Gen. Mahone hopes, before that time, to * have aroused the people {uto enthusiastic - support of hia ticket, He ways that the people are already awake,'and that hi ad- ° yices from all parts of the: State are of the most encouraging character, His course in the Sonate hus recolved the,warm approval ot the antl-Bourbons who followed him to victory in 1879, and they are HECEIVING MANY ACCESSIONS. from the ranks of the Bourbons. Gen. Mas hone says that the Republican voters through out the State are substantially a unit in his support, ‘The election in Virginia this year is an fmportant ‘one, from tho tuflucnce hofvalue, Which, having been, used {or a it” may have on'..Natlonal politic. A. ‘couple of, months, were replaced by olhers.| “overnor and other Stato oflleeys. equally abcostly, It has becomoacustum | are to be olected, but’ besldea this a Legislature is to be chosen which will elgct a Unitert States Senator lit place of Mr. iB thik ut the Hourbunse or Bungee gue sks that the urbonsg or ‘under a) gccasjons. At a so-called literary |' they ell themselves, will ight the battig, ainment given by Mr. Luuiphere last | ‘2@'tar'as the Stata debt issue i, concerned, > upon the same platform that ‘BuU-Moilre * will, that is, upon Te a AF for officers of the Departinent who are in” with the’ tunning of ‘the office, fo have fue nitnee sent to thelr houses for use on wintér, leather-upholstered chairs from the |. ‘Proasury ‘Departinent adornéd his parlorg, | byes Of course, there [ya woman In the cua, She 1a unvemploy of the Department,—younr,. witty, pretty. She knows any number’ of inembers of Congress, and {a supposed to bo of great service to Lamphere, Pitney, and the rest of them. Lamphere tried {u-get Congress, at its last session, to purchases a lurge number of couples of his bogk, Itdjd not work, but the young lady in the case did all she could for him with ber Congressional Clie THE “MUDDLEBERGER BILL"! ‘J agoluat which they have made suci a furtays on rye Gen, Mahong thinks the Bourbons ould, if they decently could, propose w wate "the debt lower thin” the Re adjusters ever advocated dolug. In other warts, for the sake of retaining control of the State oflices, and electing & Bourbon successor to Senator Johnston, fhe Bourbons would, if they dared, be willing to cust to the winds all their professions of de yotlon to the pubtic faith, aud advocate do We commenced without any’ suspicion of fraud, |, éred to Justify any opinion that the fund has’ stance, the purchase of a barrel of bay | Wasutnaton, D.C, May 23,—Tho inves ; i he ‘spent one month in working Inanew | to the ‘Treasury has been loaned out at cere. regular fing. -consisting of subordinate ofl. °F re of the Custoflian’s oflice,’ The Captain of the | or less advantage from Pltney’s method. . Jabinet officers are mentioned cin’ the testi- wrong practices exist anywhere, Wherever “ charges say that the investigation Is only the” on Bas Treasury officials say, however, that, inag- 3 ide tant prices havebeen paid, ranging from 90 to. 7 i ne eas 5